Design - Professors

**Design - Professors**:
**École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS)**:
**Location: Quebec**

**Date posted: 2024-03-01**

**Advertised until: 2024-03-31**

École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS) is a rapidly evolving university in engineering and technology located in downtown Montreal. ÉTS offers undergraduate and graduate programs focused on applied engineering as well as state-of-the-art research infrastructure. ÉTS is also home to the Centech, a business incubator, offering support services for researchers wishing to commercialize their research.

By joining l’ÉTS, you will be joining a team of highly active professors and researchers in the school’s various research chairs, labs, institutes and groups. Your work will make a tangible contribution to scientific progress and the development of Quebec’s productivity and competitiveness, as well as the training of a highly qualified workforce.

As part of the objectives of its 2022-2027 Strategic Plan, ÉTS aims to create new programs in emerging technological fields outside engineering, such as user experience design (UX), in order to increase interdisciplinarity in programs and the impact of innovation within society.

**What we offer**:

- A start-up and an equipment fund to support your scientific career
- Financial support for research and teaching (teaching and research supervision credits, funds to pay exam grading staff, etc.).
- A personalized onboarding process
- A structure to promote your research as well as networking activities to help you recruit students.
- A work environment favorable to your career development, both for research and teaching.
- A mentor program for all faculty members is offered at your arrival and throughout your career.
- Support for the immigration process and a relocation for you and your family
- A full-course program to learn French.

**Our Design Department**
The ÉTS Department of design is looking for professors in user experience design (UX) with a specialization in one or more of the exclusive fields below. Applicants will ideally have relevant professional experience.

**Job Functions**
Applications are sought in the following areas:
**User experience design**
- UX design methodologies and processes, interaction design or service design;
- Design sciences;
- History of design, interaction design and UX design;
- Information architecture;
- Data visualization;
- Interface design (UI) and design systems;
- Social design and participatory design;
- Inclusive design and accessibility;
- Transition design and speculative design;
- Prototyping methods for UX design or interaction design.

**User research for design**
- Research methodologies for UX design, interaction design or service design (qualitative and quantitative methods from social sciences, data science and/or cognitive sciences);
- Exploratory research methodologies and evaluative research;
- Research methodologies for social design and participatory design;
- Research methodologies for inclusive design and accessibility.

**User experience (UX) design strategy**
- Product management and strategy in UX design;
- Design management in an organization (DesignOps);
- Content strategy and content design (UX Writing);
- Methodologies and processes for UX design, interaction design or service design;
- History of design, interaction design and UX design;
- Design sciences.

**Job description**
**As part of a dynamic research team, you will**:

- Teach at undergraduate and graduate levels in one or more of the fields mentioned above;
- Supervise graduate students;
- Ability to undertake a research process and request the necessary funding from Quebec, Canadian or international government organizations, industrialists, municipalities, or foundations;
- Carry out subsidized or contractual research projects with industry and workplaces;
- Develop research programs.

**Requirement**
- Demonstrate aptitude or interest in teaching;
- Have industrial experience or research experience in close collaboration with industry (an asset);
- Be proficient in French (oral and written), in compliance with the ÉTS Language Policy (in French), or demonstrate a willingness to learn French and enter into a French learning program with the support of ÉTS.

**Start Date**

In case of a disability, we may offer accommodation measures during the hiring process.
- An automated (dynamic) table of contents;
- A cover letter;
- Your resume;
- A statement of your teaching objectives or your vision for the development of a UX design program;
- Your research plan, or a plan of your major projects carried out in industry that can be adapted to academia;
- A sample of your research achievements (e.g.: recent scientific articles).

**Compensation**
80 754$ - 153 620$ per year, depend on experience.

**Immigration Requirements